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The founder of Gap Inc. plans to build a vast museum near the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge to house his collection of contemporary art, much of which has remained hidden from public view.

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“This is the last pretty thing you’re going to see until we get to the lakefront,” tour guide Rose Scott tells passengers gazing at the live oaks of City Park. They’re a bit more than an hour into a van tour of the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Scott’s employer, Isabelle Cossart of Tours by Isabelle, calls it 70 miles of destruction in 3 1/2 hours.

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I’m sitting on the sloping lawn of the Montpelier Plantation Inn with a rum punch in hand, watching the sun slink gracefully into the sea below as a tiny hummingbird hovers above a giant hibiscus flower just feet away. I feel for a fleeting instant at peace with the world.

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The oldest Civil War museum in the country will be moving from a downtown row house in Philadelphia to a classic colonial building close to Independence Hall.

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